The story “My Favorite Chaperone” written by Jean Davies Okimoto, satarts of when a family from Kazakhstan comes to America. This family came to America for a main reason, that reason is to earn money. The family had many complictation in their new life. So in this familhy are two children and parents. The two children are Maya and Nurzhan, Maya is the eldest and goes to middle school while Nurzhan is smaller than her and goes the a middle school. In Maya's highschool life comes a dance. She watnts ot go, if she wants to go to the dance she need permission from her parents. Already knowing that they wont sign it, she still takes. This just shows how hopefull she is. Since Maya is the eldest, she has a lot of responsibilities. One of those
